F1 Grote Prijs van Rusland 2014

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Tijdschema

Vrijdag 10 oktober 2014

08.00-09.30 1ste vrije training
12.00-13.30 2de vrije training

Zaterdag 11 oktober 2014

10.00-11.00 3de vrije training - RTL TELEVISION
13.00-14.00 Kwalificatie - LA DEUX HD, RTL TELEVISION, SPORTING TELENET HD, BBC HD

Zondag 12 oktober 2014

13.00 Russian Grand Prix / Гран-при России - LA DEUX HD, RTL TELEVISION, SPORTING TELENET HD, BBC HD

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Ziet er maar een saaie track uit eigenlijk. Doet mij denken aan het circuit in de haven van Valencia.

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Russian GP – To a new challenge thinking of Jules

The thoughts of the entire Formula 1 world are still in Japan, trying to support Jules Bianchi in the hard battle that the young Frenchman is fighting. But the big Formula 1 family is arriving in Sochi for the only all-new event on the 2014 calendar, the Russian Grand Prix at Sochi, best known as the home of this year’s Winter Olympics.
“It’s always a challenge going to a new circuit and it’s easy to underestimate how much knowledge you take to an existing circuit because you’ve raced there beforehand,” says Scuderia Ferrari Technical Director James Allison. “Therefore going to a brand new one puts a team on its mettle to make sure they’ve covered all the bases. We know the basics about Sochi and we’ve had some opportunity to run it in both our off-line computer simulations and also with our driver simulator, to try and learn its characteristics.”
The aim of the simulations is to try and find a baseline set-up for the F14 T to start the weekend during Free Practice 1. A quick glance at the Sochi track map reveals two comparatively long fast sections and a number of corners at the low end of the speed range. “But the dominant corner is a really quite aggressively fast long flowing left-hander, shortly after the start-finish straight,” adds Allison. “So you can see just by a casual look that this is going to be a track where there is going to be a competition between what you want on the straights and what you want for that series of slow speed corners. The slow speed corners are going to be crying out for downforce, the straights, the opposite.” Apart from the set-up compromise driven by the track characteristics, there is also the compromise required between running maximum speed down the straights in the race, while having sufficient downforce to be quick through the corners during Saturday’s qualifying.


“Generally speaking, the more talented drivers, the ones who tend to have more spare mental capacity, start establishing competitive lap times earlier in the weekend than the others,” continues Allison. “But all the drivers in Formula 1 have got the talent to learn a track and be pretty much on the money by the time qualifying comes. So, the new track effect will only really persist for the first session or two.”
Formula 1’s tyre supplier has a difficult job, because choosing the right rubber for a brand new track is something that cannot really be sorted through simulation and Pirelli’s best assessment is that the Medium and Soft compounds are what is required. Another unknown quantity concerns the Power Unit requirements, particularly how to harvest and use the recovered energy and whether or not fuel saving strategies will be required. And then there’s always that most important factor to be considered, reliability. “We are in the final quarter of the season now and the reliability part of these 2014 rules will start to bear down ever more heavily on all the teams,” concludes the Scuderia’s Technical Director. “It’s a part of the rules that we need to take considerable care over to make sure we keep operating to our absolute best level.”

Bron: http://formula1.ferrari.com/news/rus...thinking-jules

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Artikel van Lotus F1 over de Sochi Autodrom en de Gp van komend weekend:

What would you describe as the main challenges of Sochi Autodrom?
We will of course only properly identify the challenges once we are actually in Sochi however we already have initial feedback from both Romain and Pastor who have been in the simulator. Turn 3 is a long and quite high speed corner that will present a good challenge. Braking down into Turn 13 will be very severe and you come out of the kink before you brake so it will be a difficult corner to get right. Overall, the whole track looks quite technical, so it certainly will be a challenging one for the drivers.

What type of car set-up and downforce levels do we expect for Sochi?
It looks like a high downforce circuit as most corner speeds are between 80 and 140kph. I would say that setup will probably be similar to Singapore although there are a couple of straights that are longer in Sochi so downforce levels will be between Singapore and Suzuka.

The circuit seems to have little in the way of run off; what challenges does that throw up for the team?
The main challenges really on these types of circuits are for the drivers. They will have to learn the track pretty rapidly to feel comfortable with its configuration and concentrate at all times during the lap. We all know the penalties of a short run-off when it’s a new track with uncertain grip levels.

Are there any climate challenges?
The information we have is that the weather can be quite unusual in Sochi as you have the mountains on one side and the sea on the other. We can expect mild temperatures of about 20°C during the day and 12°C at night, the average in that region in October. Early forecast indicates that there are reasonable chances of rain.

Pastor and Romain have both previewed the circuit in our simulator. How useful was it for them to have had a first taste of the new track?
The simulator is a valuable asset and one which enables the drivers to be very quickly up to speed when they take to the track for the first time. They will know how one corner flows into another, which line to take and have an initial idea about braking points. It might mean that they get their lap times down three or four laps earlier than they normally would. Overall it gives them a head start in FP1.

What type of preparations does the team do before visiting a new circuit? How useful is it to do preparation work in the simulator?
Before we had a simulator, when we had a new circuit like this we would estimate the racing line through the corner to do initial simulations. With a simulator, once the driver has completed a few laps you have a more accurate racing line, which enables us to create a far more accurate simulation model. This assists the trackside engineers to prepare an initial baseline set-up which once again saves time at the track.

How did we prepare to take the team to a new venue?
It’s important to have a good environment for everyone to be able to perform on track, so we liaise with the organisers and our partners to ensure we have suitable office space and telecommunications links back to Enstone. It’s amazing the amount of data which is processed over the course of a race weekend, so we have to be able to house all of the team as well as all the equipment involved. There’s a lot of forward planning behind the scenes to ensure the smooth running of any event, and especially if it’s a new one.

What were the performance considerations for the team in Suzuka?
It was an usual weekend in terms of performance. We looked to have good potential on the Friday, then we couldn’t match our goals on Saturday. Then in the very difficult conditions of race day we put in some pretty respectable laps over the course of the race. It was a tough event in terms of strategy, but both drivers we able to get some good stints and make good gains. It was another race weekend where we learnt a lot.

Bron: http://www.lotusf1team.com/news-arch...ra-simulation/

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Dat ze die banaan herman tilke maar buiten zwieren met zijn saaie circuits.

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Alexander Rossi vervangt Bianchi

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Benieuwd wat die Rossi uit zijn mouw gaat schudden. Zou wel eens serieus goed kunnen gaan want is een onbekend circuit voor iedereen. Dus als die in tussentijd ook snel zijn zeepkist onder controle krijgt komt er misschien wel een verrassing uit.

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''Marussia rijdt in Rusland met één auto. Het team heeft besloten de tweede wagen in de pits te houden uit respect voor Jules Bianchi, die sinds zijn zware crash in de Japanse Grand Prix in het ziekenhuis ligt.De naam van Alexander Rossi, de reservecoureur van Marussia voor de race in Rusland, prijkte donderdag nog op de startlijst, maar het team heeft in een verklaring laten weten dat zij het gezien de omstandigheden gepast vindt om dit weekend met maar één auto te racen. De tweede wagen is wel opgebouwd door de crew van Bianchi en zal gedurende het weeekend aan zijn kant van de garage blijven staan.
Max Chilton is in Rusland de enige coureur voor Marussia.''

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Qualify

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Ben benieuwd naar de race van morgen.. denk dat het een saaie bedoening zal worden
ik heb maar een paar rondjes van qualify gezien en het zag er niet echt spannend uit.. :s



edit; http://hasmaldonadocrashedtoday.com

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2014 FORMULA 1 RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX

1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	53	1:31:50.744	1	25
2	6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	53	+13.6 secs	2	18
3	77	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	53	+17.4 secs	3	15
4	22	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	53	+30.2 secs	4	12
5	20	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	53	+53.6 secs	11	10
6	14	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	53	+60.0 secs	7	8
7	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-Renault	53	+61.8 secs	6	6
8	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault	53	+66.1 secs	10	4
9	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	53	+78.8 secs	8	2
10	11	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	53	+80.0 secs	12	1
11	19	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	53	+80.8 secs	18
12	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	53	+81.3 secs	17
13	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	STR-Renault	53	+97.2 secs	9
14	26	Daniil Kvyat	STR-Renault	52	+1 Lap	5
15	21	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber-Ferrari	52	+1 Lap	13
16	99	Adrian Sutil	Sauber-Ferrari	52	+1 Lap	14
17	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	52	+1 Lap	15
18	13	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Renault	52	+1 Lap	21
19	9	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	51	+2 Laps	16
Ret	10	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	21	Brakes	19
Ret	4	Max Chilton	Marussia-Ferrari	9	Retired	20

Note - Hulkenberg, Magnussen, Chilton, Maldonado dropped 5 grid places for unscheduled gearbox changes. Maldonado also dropped 5 as remainder of 10-place penalty for engine change at last round